LTML director Doering delivered the keynote for the Minnesota eLearning Summit today to a packed house of over 400 attendees. His talk, “Innovations in Technology-Enhanced Learning: Designing for Transformation and Engagement,” offered a great springboard into the conference. A selection of tweets and photos from...

The LT Media Lab (LTML) and The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota have been partnering this year on the development of a new online learning environment called the Raptor Lab. The Raptor Lab models the process of scientific investigation in real-world settings through...

Jolie Kennedy, Fan Ouyang and Yu-Hui Chang presented their work at the EdMedia 2015 World Conference on Educational Media and Technology organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). The conference was held June 22-24 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and drew...

Educators from schools and libraries participated in LT Code Camp, a two-day professional development workshop focused on integrating computer science and computational thinking activities into education. The camp challenged participants to explore why computer science is important for students, what online and “unplugged” resources were...

Bodong Chen, assistant professor of LT, attended the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL2015) held in Gothenburg, Sweden. As a bi-annual conference sponsored by the International Society of Learning Sciences, CSCL focuses on issues related to learning through collaboration and productive collaborative...

Orono Middle School visual art teacher and LT adjunct instructor, Lockie Chapman recently received the outstanding news that she was one of 100 educators in the nation recognized as a PBS Digital Innovator. The award celebrates educational leaders in educational and instructional technology and those...

LTML director Doering invited Australian colleague and friend Professor Barney Dalgarno to the LT Media Lab (LTML) to present his recent research from the uImagine Digital Learning Innovation Lab, which Dalgarno leads at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in New South Wales. While in Minnesota, Dalgarno...

LT PhD student Fan Ouyang has been elected Executive Vice President of the Council of Graduate Students (COGS) for the 2015-2016 academic year. COGS is the student organization that represents, advocates for, informs, facilitates communications among, and supports graduate students at the University of Minnesota...

Canadian Geographic Magazine has included LTML director Aaron Doering in their list of top modern-day trailblazers. Doering has led more than a dozen expeditions tied to adventure learning programs throughout the Canadian and circumpolar Arctic and across the globe since 2004. He was also recently...

Doering announced an exciting new adventure learning and GIS initiative this week that the LT Media Lab will be undertaking with partners ESRI and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Read more in the College of Education and Human Development post, excerpted and linked below!
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Huge congrats to Dr. Cassie Scharber, who was honored this past week with tenure, a promotion to associate professor, and an Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award — all very well-deserved! The advising award came from the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA) at the University...

Big congrats to Dr. Aaron Doering, LTML director, on his recent promotion to full professor! Doering was honored with the well-earned promotion last week. He joined LT as an assistant professor in 2005, and has been at the University of Minnesota since 1999. Recognized as...

Learning Technologies (LT) is pleased to spotlight Jesse Avant, a student in the Learning Technologies (LT) program undergraduate courses.
Background and Current Interests:
I am an undergraduate senior in the Liberal Arts program and will be graduating this spring with a degree in English. Before my enrollment...

Dr. Bodong Chen was recently honored with the Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association’s (CAERDA) 2015 Dissertation Award at its 23rd annual conference. This award is given to Chinese and Chinese Americans who have completed a quality dissertation on education or education and teaching...

Congratulations to Li-chin (Crystal) Huang, who successfully defended her dissertation at the lab this past Friday. Her dissertation, "Preferences, Pedagogical Strategies, and Challenges of Instructors Teaching in Multiple Delivery Formats within A 2-Year College Context," examines general education instructors’ preferences, pedagogical strategies, and challenges in...

Last week ten representatives from the Learning Technologies program attended the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting (AERA). The group was busy presenting posters, papers, and roundtable discussions; presenting at special interest group (SIG) meetings; and, for some, attending their first AERA annual meeting.
Dr. Bodong...

LT's Jeni Henrickson presented two papers coauthored with Dr. Aaron Doering at the AACE Global Learn conference in Berlin. The conference drew a diverse international crowd and was hosted by Fernuniversität in a beautiful modern space along the Spree River near the Berliner Dom. The...

LTML director Doering recently presented virtually to school leaders throughout Singapore as part of a conference on networked online learning. His presentation focused on innovative practices in the design and development of online learning environments. While discussing concepts ranging from how students best learn to...

Each year, the College of Education and Human Development, of which LT is a part, hosts a Research Day to highlight the impact of college research on our lives. This year, LTML showcased a variety of the projects being developed and researched at the lab....

LT faculty Dr. Bodong Chen attended the 5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference hosted by Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. The theme for this year's conference, "Scaling Up: Big Data to Big Impact," reflects the success of the growing community of researchers, practitioners,...

Learning Technologies (LT) is pleased to spotlight Ashley Tensen, a student in the Learning Technologies (LT) program for additional Minnesota teaching licensure in K-12 Teachers of Computer Keyboarding and Related Technology Applications.
Tell us a bit about yourself…
I am currently enjoying my first year...